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Are there any cases of authors/writers that have intentionally stolen a character name from another work?

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Galadriel Hopkins comes to mind. Her mother is a Tolkien fan.

A very different example would be the character Alfred Bester from Babylon 5. B5's Bester is the main "Psi Cop" in the show — a strong telepath who enforces the strict laws on other telepaths. He is named for the science-fiction author Alfred Bester, whose novel The Demolished Man established several of the telepathy tropes that are used in B5, including the existence of a formal organization that manages telepaths and telepath/mundane relations: in the novel it's called the Esper Guild, in B5, it's the Psi Corps.

@fubo@lemmy.world And Bester was played by Walter Koenig, aka Pavel Chekov.

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